Can I start/run the prisma server on my machine without docker?

Sure 🙂 check https://github.com/graphql-boilerplates/node-graphql-server/tree/master/basic

Prisma != Yoga or whatever node server you put in front of it. You could build the JARs from source yourself and run it, however, we do not offer prepackaged JARs at the moment, but we’re looking into it for the future 🙂